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Pints West 72, Winter 2006 AWARD-WINNING No. 72 Winter 2006/2007 CAMPAIGN CAMPAIGN FOR FOR REAL ALE REAL ALE www.camrabristol.org.uk PPIIINNNTSTSTS WWWEEESSSTT PPPAward-winning newsletter of the Bristol & District Branch of CAMRA, the Campaign forTTT Real Ale Tenth Glorious Year Photo by Richard Brooks Bristol Beer Festival 2007 EVERY year we wonder how it can Council House on College Green with just 50 your favourite beer style (dark, golden, the possibly get better, and every year it real ales and less than 20 ciders and perries. increasingly rare ‘brown’ or even a real la- does! Small but beautifully formed, it was a major ger), we have something for you. You’ll find March 2007 sees the fabulous Bristol achievement for the volunteers from Bristol familiar local beers as well as those from Beer Festival reach its tenth year (and its and District CAMRA who spent the previous further afield that rarely make a visit to pubs fourth in the amazing Brunel Passenger Shed year planning and organising, and for the in the area. We also now offer one of the at Temple Meads). If this were a wedding many more from around the UK who helped largest ranges of real cider and perry of any anniversary, ten years would be celebrated us serve an enthusiastic crowd of around South-West CAMRA festival. with tin (apparently) but the 4,000 customers 1,800 people thirsty for a taste of the real It’s easy to see why the Festival has been who join us for the two-day event will have stuff! a sell-out success from its very first year and to make do with a Festival glass to sample a We’ve seen a lot of change in ten years, that’s unlikely to change for 2007. Tickets go selection from the more than 120 different with pub and brewery closures and, thank- on sale from 1st January (see page 2 inside real ales and 40 real ciders and perries on fully, some new additions. Your thirst for for details) – whether you’re a regular visitor, offer. good quality ‘real’ drinks has continued to or want to try something new, come and Our first Festival was a more modest grow over the years and the Festival has celebrate our tenth anniversary at the Bristol affair, launched in February 1998 in the grown in quality and quantity too. Whatever Beer Festival 2007. Lesly Huxley ...............................................................................................................................PINTS WEST ....................... Bristol Beer Festival 2007 The Cornubia and THE tenth annual Bristol Beer Festival will take place at the Brunel Passenger Brewery Tap: the Shed, Temple Meads, Bristol, on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd March 2007. There will be approximately 120 real ales mystery deepens and 40 ciders and perries. Food will be MONTHS have passed since July when the available at all sessions. The ticket price award-winning interior of the Smiles Brewery includes admission, programme and a Tap was shockingly gutted and the Conubia commemorative glass. Card-carrying was closed without warning. CAMRA members will receive a voucher for Sadly the future for both pubs remain a a free half-pint of beer, cider or perry. cause for considerable concern. There is still Admission is by advance ticket only: no sign of the promised micro-brewery on the site of the Smiles Brewery Tap, giving Friday: 11.30am - 4.00pm £4.00 unwelcome credence to the rumours that Friday: 7.00pm - 11.00pm £5.00 there was never any intention of this plan Saturday: 11.30am - 4.00pm £4.50 going ahead. Indeed, at the time of writing Saturday: 7.00pm - 11.00pm £4.00 the pub area of the site remains an empty shell. Tickets go on sale from 1st January 2007 More surprising is the fact that the (not before) at the Bridge Inn, Passage Cornubia has remained closed, particuarly as Street, Bristol; the Hare on the Hill, there was a high level of interest from various Kingsdown; the Inn on the Green, parties in taking on the pub and it appeared Horfield; and Off The Rails, Weston-super- to be common knowledge that there had been Mare. Please note that there is a maximum a successful bidder for the lease. Postal ticket applications (no personal of 10 tickets per application. The loss of one of these pubs would callers) with stamped, addressed envelope to: Tickets are strictly non-refundable. The have been a blow for Bristol, let alone for CAMRA c/o 7 Kellaway Court, Kellaway event sells out every year and we need to them both to disappear. We are left hoping Avenue, Golden Hill, Bristol, BS6 7YP. ensure that the tickets go to people who will for some positive news to come out of the Cheques should be payable to “Bristol & actually turn up! shambles that was the final collapse of District CAMRA”. Please ensure that you For information and updates on the beer Smiles, once a Bristol brewery that was held provide a contact email address or phone festival, as well as branch meetings and other in high esteem along with its award-winning number with your application in case of any activities, keep an eye on the branch web site pubs. queries. www.camrabristol.org.uk. Richard Brooks 2 Local CAMRA web site : www.camrabristol.org.uk ...............................................................................................................................P.......................INTS WEST CAMRA announces new Arbor Ales campaign to boost community is coming sadly many real communities in rural and urban areas are in danger of losing or have pubs BRISTOL is about to get a new brewery. Jon already lost their community pub. Comer is launching Arbor Ales in an outbuild- The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has “Community pubs, particularly those in ing behind the Old Tavern in Fishponds, which announced plans for a national week of action more remote rural areas, are often the hub of he’s hoping to get into in the first week of in February 2007 to help preserve and the lives of the local people. None of us want December. promote pubs that serve as an irreplaceable to be in a situation where the only way we It needs quite a bit of work so realistically asset to their local community yet are closing speak with our neighbours is through a car he’s looking at opening the brewery mid to late at a frightening rate. window or a stolen conversation at a super- January, with a first brew out in early CAMRA research in 2005 showed that 26 market many miles away. However an February. Jon has gone for a 2.5-barrel plant, pubs a month are lost in Britain. However, increasing number of these pubs are being so he’s keeping it a fairly small operation. early indications from further research suggests permanently lost.” Paul Comer, brother of Jon, is taking over that current figures may actually be much “The smoking ban in place or coming into the lease on the Old Tavern as a separate higher – and it is not theme pubs or chain bars force shortly in different parts of the UK venture. Although it isn’t directly part of the that are under threat but pubs at the heart of means pubs face a difficult time in 2007. brewery, he will be regularly stocking a couple the local community. People need to realise that their local is a of Arbor Ales’ beers along with other local The first ever Community Pubs Week will valuable asset that must be protected.” brews. take place from 17th February to 24th “We know people care about their Jon says he’ll probably launch with three February in order to raise the profile and communities as, in a terrific show of support, ales. There’s one definite beer planned, which importance of pubs in the community and four million people recently signed a petition is a dark best bitter he’s calling Old Knobbley. encourage people of all ages and backgrounds calling for the Government to do more to save He did a test brew at Westbury Ales a few to support this valuable community amenity. rural post offices. The threat to the commu- weeks back to see how the recipe scaled up CAMRA defines a community pub as a nity pub is extremely dire and unless we do and was quite pleased with the results. And it pub which appeals to a wide cross-section of something to curb the trend CAMRA fears seemed to sell well (under a Westbury Ales the local community rather than being pre- many communities will find their local pub pseudonym). dominantly targeted at particular social or age torn from them.” Jon has another ‘best’ that he’s tinkering groups. Throughout Community Pubs Week with at the moment to make it a ‘special’. If it CAMRA Chief Executive, Mike Benner CAMRA members across Britain will be keeps its character when he increases the said: “All soaps on TV and radio have asking local licensees to get involved with the gravity he reckons it should be a winner. community pubs – The Bull, The Rovers campaign and put on events and promotions For the third beer, Jon says it’s a toss-up Return, The Queen Vic, The Woolpack – but for people in their communities to enjoy. between a golden session ale and a traditional These will feature on IPA, though he might keep the IPA for an CAMRA’s website occasional brew though as it’s a strong beer at www.camra.org.uk/ 5.7%. communitypubsweek. Arbor Ales Ltd – Tel: 07823 335392 Promotional beer Email: [email protected] SP mats, posters and advice sheets from CAMRA will be WARNING available for pubs that From the Management of the wish to take part in HOPE & ANCHOR the campaign from the Exceptional Public House beginning of Decem- BEER SPILL ber 2006.
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